What have i done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dai wiskers]

Can you believe it i have made my bike UGLY UGLY UGLY

All i did was fit Givi rack arms and rack

In all honesty i can not recomend these the arms were a bugger to fit no in all fairness the right one went on easy, the left one had been mede with the fromt mounting out of square so i had to drill it out to make it fit, [therefore invalidating any warranty and weakening it in the process]

I love the way they were packaged as well some of the arm mounts are in the rack box some of the rack mounts were in the arm box as they are sold seperatly i feel this is a con

Anyway i got the arms fitted and thought i must have fitted them to the wrong side as they were far wider than the rack, off they came and i can say they only fit one way, so put them back on the way i had them in the first place

Then i fitted the rack mounting's still thinking this will look horible when done i carried on and finished the job bl00dy hell did it look carp i was almost screaming at what i had fitted to my pretty bike. The problem was the rack looked like it was made for another bike the lines were wrong and it looked like it was the wrong rack for the arms, Now i know why you see so many bikes with Givi topboxes fitted at all times the box covers up the ugly rack fitting.

I looked at it for about ten minutes before deciding it was coming off then remembered i had a rack plate off an old GSX 1100 twin shoc i went up to the garage and dug it out it's a nonfango but looked like it would fit

Not only did it fit but it looks so much better as it hides the ugly rack mounts it also has a decent grab rail built in to keep Ann happy
OK a Givi top box wont fit but i dont have a Givi top box i have a cheapo chinese one that has it's own plate that fits the nonfango rack.

I'm a happy boy now but pissed at what Givi sell to fit on such a pretty bike [ok mines not pretty but Givi don't know that]

Please if you value the looks of your bike don't and don't want a topbox perminatly[spling] fitted look for another make of rack if available all i could find was Givi

I supose the Givi could be made to look better by spraying the rack mounts black or colour coding them to your bike

Cheers all Dai

[boxerscott]

I have those, well pleased with them, do as exactlty what they say, they are only on the bike for when we go away, Take them off immediately after use. I recall having to enlarge a hole to get one to fit. Do not carry a mahoosive top box though, that will look crap

[Blackal]

I have one of these - I was never happy with the fit, which put strain on the base-plate. I think I used it on holiday once - and took it off......

Al

[GRAgusta]

I have A Givi rack and top box. I have used it three times. It works well, it takes twenty minutes to fit it - the rack - before a trip when I want to use it, and twenty minutes to remove it immediately I get home.

It is nowhere good enough quality, nor pretty enough to leave in place .... but we have definitely appreciated it when we have used it.

[Al]

Just fitted a givi rack and certainly agree with Dai they are UGLY, only good thing is that it can removed in 15-20 mins.
Just hope the cheap top box off ebay is ok!!

Al.